Candlestick



F. A. ROCKW'ELL.

Patented Dec. 16. 1851.

Candlestick.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS A. ROCKWELL, OF RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT.

CANDLESTICK.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 8,594, dated December 16, 1851 Ressued February To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS A. RoeliwELL, of Ridgefield, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Candlesticks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference be ing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a vertical transverse section of one of my improved Candlesticks. Fig. 2, is an enlarged view of the cork and two plates, detached from the Candlestick, it being a vert-ical transverse section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in.each of the two figures.

The nature of my invention consists in a novel manner of securing the cork between two metallic plates, (by means of a bolt or by other suitable means), of nearly the same diameter as the base of the sliding socket of the Candlestick; and having rims projecting from the horizontal surfaces of these plates, the rimof the bottom plate being made to tit snugly over the hollow standard, base or spring (on which the candle rests) and then soldered or otherwise lirmly secured to the standard, the advantage derived from having the cork stationary or firmly attached will be hereinafter fully set forth; and the top plate being made to answer as a receptacle or socket for the candle when it is nearly consumed and t-he sliding socket moved down below the top plate; and the said top plate also answers or serves as a protection to the cork or other elastic material when the candle is in the act of being entirely consumed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and the manner of using the same. A

A, represents the base of the ordinary Candlestick and B, the hollow standard.

C, represents a sliding socket which may be constructed in the manner shown in the drawing, or in any other suitable manner.

D, represents a piece of cork or any other elastic material that will answer the same purpose of the cork this cork is secured between two metallic plates E, E', by meahs the cork and preventing its being burned or` injured when the candle is nearly consumed. And the rim of the bottom plate E', which is precisely similar to the top plate E, is made to fit snugly over the outer periphery of the hollow standard or to a base or spring of the Candlestick, as the case may be, and then soldered or otherwise secured.

Thus the cork is held in a permanent position which is not the case in the other device for a similar purpose, for in the other arrangement the cork is allowed to be movable, thereby causing a great deal of trouble and inconvenience in using the same, for, when the sliding socket is moved down, and then again elevated the cork will occupy a position in the upper end of the tube and thus rendering it very disagreeable to use and manage on account of the grease, &c., as it would necessarily require that the cork should be pressed down in some way before a candle can be inserted which makes it as troublesome to manage as the ordinary Candlestick with a shifting slide. My invention obviates all these difficulties as the cork is always stationary or firmly secured to the standard or other similar device, and the sliding socket is raised and lowered without the least danger of loosening the cork or otherwise disconnecting it from the standard.

It will be seen that by the employment of these metallic plates in combination with the cork that lthe cork may be securely fastened to the standard, all grease prevented fromrunning down the sides of the candlestick, and that the candle may be entirely consumed without injury to the cork or other elastic substance, for as the candle is being consumed, the sliding socket is lowered until it passes down below the metallic plate E, the rim of which plate, will then serve as the socket, and thus the entire candle without any waste may be burned or consumed, which is seldom the case when other devices for a like purpose are employed. The cork or other expansive substance e'ectually prevents the grease from running down the sides of, and into the hollow standard, as the periphery of the elastic substance is made to press or ft snugly against the inner periphery of the sliding socket. This may be more fully understood byva reference to the drawing Fig. 1. This invention may be readily applied to the ordinary spring candle stick in common use, to great advant-age, as it will el'ectually ob- Viatethe great difficulty experienced from their use; as the socket and also the snifting slide often becomes clogged with grease and thereby preventing the slides working freely and often the slide is bent or broken in endeavoring to overcome the resistance of the hard tallow which may have collected in thesocket.

I do not claim the employment of a movable detached cork or other elastic substance over which a sliding socket is allowed to move nor do I claim the employment of a sliding socket, but

That I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The employment, in the sliding socket y FRANCIS A. ROCKWELL.

Witnesses:

SYLvEsrER MAIN, JOHN J. SHERwoon.

[Fms'r PRINTED 1913.] 

